The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage
10 best books like The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage (Paul Elie): Girl, Woman, Other, Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness, Islam: A Short History, The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity, Wise Blood, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith, The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism, Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It Into the New Testament, The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
| Author | Bernardine Evaristo |
| ISBN | 0241364906 |
Joint Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019
Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories...
Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
| Author | Alisa Roth |
| ISBN | 0465094198 |
An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons
America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons...
El Islam es, probablemente, la religión más incomprendida y malinterpretada de la modernidad. Una curiosa ignorancia prevalece en Occidentes desde las cruzadas, cuando empezó a cultivarse una visión distorsionada del Islam como una religión violenta e intolerante. Sin embargo, los imperios...
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
| Author | Kwame Anthony Appiah |
Who do you think you are? That’s a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture. Such affiliations give contours to our sense of self, and shape our polarized world. Yet the collective identities they spawn are riddled with contradictions,...
| Author | Flannery O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0374530637 |
Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is a story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher...
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
| Author | Karen Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0385721277 |
In 1962, at age seventeen, Karen Armstrong entered a convent, eager to meet God. After seven brutally unhappy years as a nun, she left her order to pursue English literature at Oxford. But convent life had profoundly altered her, and coping with the outside world and her expiring faith proved to be excruciating....
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0060872632 |
By now I expected to be a seasoned parish minister, wearing black clergy shirts grown gray from frequent washing. I expected to love the children who hung on my legs after Sunday morning services until they grew up and had children of their own. I even expected to be buried wearing the same red vestments...
| Author | Daniel C. Matt |
| ISBN | 0062511637 |
I first read this book several years ago for a course I took while working on my master’s degree. As I decided to incorporate weekly meditations in my world religion course, I wanted to revisit some of the mystical writings of each tradition I cover. This is mostly selections of Kabbalistic writings,...
| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
| ISBN | 0195182502 |
While most people think that the twenty-seven books of the New Testament are the only sacred writings of the early Christians, this is not at all the case. A companion volume to Bart Ehrman's Lost Christianities, this book offers an anthology of up-to-date and readable translations of many non-canonical...
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
| Author | Dorothy Day |
| ISBN | 0060617519 |
This inspiring and fascinating memoir, subtitled, “The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist,” The Long Loneliness is the late Dorothy Day’s compelling autobiographical testament to her life of social activism and her spiritual pilgrimage. A founder of the Catholic...
| Author | Willis Barnstone |
| ISBN | 1590301994 |
Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE—with earlier antecedents and later flourishings—whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and...
| Author | Karen Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0307269183 |
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam,...
| Author | Burton L. Mack |
| ISBN | 0060653752 |
If you are a Christian and wavering in your faith, then this book may tip you over the edge. There are points the author raises that will challenge your beliefs and your understanding of many traditions that exist today. Q does not actually exist, but the contents have been reconstructed and is a collection...
| Author | Amos Oz |
| ISBN | 0679721851 |
Like much of Amos Oz's work, Black Box is not about the story. Indeed, the book is built around the premise that unresolved childhood trauma brings disaster to all the people around when the child grows up, but in truth the book is all about people: dysfunctional people who hit, scream, beg, and blackmail,...
The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life
| Author | Frederick Buechner |
| ISBN | 0310351901 |
Your remarkable life is happening right here, right now. You may not be able to see it – your life may seem predictable and your work insignificant until you look at your life as Frederick Buechner does.
Based on a series of mostly unpublished lectures, Frederick Buechner reveals how to stop,...
| Author | Rodolphe Kasser |
| ISBN | 1426200420 |
For 1600 years its message lay hidden. When the bound papyrus pages of this lost gospel finally reached scholars who could unlock its meaning, they were astounded. Here was a gospel that had not been seen since the early days of Xianity, & which few experts had even thought existed–a gospel told...
Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
| Author | Karen Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0307401960 |
From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion's connection to violence.
For the first time in American history, religious self-identification is on the decline. Some have cited a perception that began to grow after September 11, 2001-that...
The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus
A new translation and analysis of the gospel that records the actual words of Jesus.
Explores the gnostic significance of Jesus's teachings recorded in this gospel and explains the true nature of the new man whose coming Jesus envisioned.
Translated and interpreted by the author of the bestselling...
